Why protect a friend Who betrayed you?

'But I didn't Want to look at them.

'I didn't Want to look at the guys Who brought them either.'

(# The Animals: House Of The Rising Sun)

Your honor, as you can see, my clients are elderly and infirm.

Any incarceration could pose a serious health risk.

(Nicky) 'Some of the bosses Were so old, they needed doctors at their arraignment.'

- Pre-trial services recommends bail as set. - We're going to take a recess.

'When it looked like they could get 25 years to life for skimmin' a casino,

'sick or no fuckin' sick, people Were going to get clipped.

'The day of the arraignment, they had this meeting in the back of the courthouse.

'See, When something like this happens, you knoW hoW things are gonna Work out.

'It's alWays better With no Witnesses. So What about Andy? '

He Won't talk. Stone is a good kid.

Stand-up guy just like his old man.

That's the Way I see it.

I agree. He's solid. He's a fuckin' marine.

He's OK. He alWays Was. Remo, What do you think?

Look...

Why take a chance?

At least, that's the Way I feel about it.

Call Artie. Tell him, I don't care What.

He's got to be in my office Thursday morning before 11:00.

It's important. I gotta have a conversation With that guy...

(Nicky) 'As much as they liked him, he Wasn't one of us.

'He Wasn't Italian. As far as they kneW, he could have talked.

'Otherwise, Stoney might still be alive.'

'The first one to skip Was John Nance.

'He found a nice, Warm, secluded place in Costa Rica.

'He thought nobody Would find him there.

(Gunshots)

(Glass smashing)

(Gunshots)

'But then his kid got nabbed by the Feds for drugs.

'Naturally, the bosses Were afraid he'd come out of hiding

'just to save his kid and give them all up.

'So... '

Where you goin', jag-off?

'But, anyWay, they, you knoW, they all had to folloW. Everybody Went doWn.'

Fuck you.

'Before you kneW it, anybody Who kneW anything Wound up gettin' Whacked.'